hosed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hosed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1shoed
- One letter away
- 12dosed, holed
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hosed is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hose — socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear). The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ow1 z d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bulldozed
- closed
- composed
- decomposed
- deposed
- disclosed
- disposed
- dozed
- enclosed
- exposed
- imposed
- juxtaposed
- nosed
- opposed
- posed
- proposed
- supposed
- transposed
- foreclosed
- misdiagnosed
- overexposed
- predisposed
- reimposed
- superimposed
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: shoed.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.